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Lethal Injection
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Sentencing Law and Policy
Final execution of 2008 conducted in South Carolina
Main December 6, 2008Final execution of 2008 conducted in South CarolinaAs detailed in this local story, South Carolina conducted an execution yesterday. And this DPIC list of scheduled executions indicates…
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Ohio ready to return to execution business
Main October 14, 2008Ohio ready to return to execution businessAs detailed in this AP article, many of the potential legal and practical roadblocks have been cleared in order to allow…
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Will California ever get back in the execution business?
Main September 18, 2008Will California ever get back in the execution business?Howard Mintz has this interesting piece in the San Jose Mercury News, headlined "Appeals Court to Consider State's Death…
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Too fat to execute using lethal injection?
Main September 17, 2008Too fat to execute using lethal injection?Obesity, sex and death are all to be found in this CNN story, headlined "Weight gain not intentional to dodge execution,…
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Did the Supreme Court’s work inBazematter at all?
Main September 2, 2008Did the Supreme Court's work in Baze matter at all?The DPIC has this recent item discussing the details of the 20 executions in months since the Supreme…
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Three more uneventful(?) lethal injections, including one with a political spin
Main July 26, 2008Three more uneventful(?) lethal injections, including one with a political spinAs detailed in this DPIC list, Mississippi and Texas and Virginia all completed executions over the last…
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Dyslexic doc involved in lethal injection in Arizona
Main July 24, 2008Dyslexic doc involved in lethal injection in ArizonaAs first discussed here two years ago, a federal judge ordered Missouri's machinery of death to come to a halt…
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Fourth Circuit upholds Virginia’s lethal injection protocol
Main July 10, 2008Fourth Circuit upholds Virginia's lethal injection protocolIf you are in the mood to spend your afternoon reading about lethal injection law and procedure, the Fourth Circuit serves…
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Three months afterBaze, has anything really changed?
Main July 10, 2008Three months after Baze, has anything really changed?Back in May in this post, I asked "A month after Baze, has anything really changed?". Two months later, this…
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Lethal litigation to continue with dueling doctors in the first state
Main June 24, 2008Lethal litigation to continue with dueling doctors in the first stateAs detailed in this local article, the post-Baze litigation excitement in Delaware is taking place in local…